Case Studies Working Group report, volume II
By: Richard Weitz, Ph.D., editor
Contributors: Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Carlisle, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1009
ISBN-13: 9781584875123
Subjects: Interagency coordination; National security; Project on National Security Reform; Military policy; Case studies; Foreign relations
Other titles: Project on National Security Reform
Description: "The case studies in this volume confirm the conclusions of other PNSR analyses that the performance of the U.S. national security apparatus in inconsistent. Although some cases illustrate relatively clear, integrated strategy development, unified policy implementation, and coherent tactical planning, coordination, and execution; others depict flawed, divided, contradictory, and sometimes nonexistent strategy promulgation and enactment. Similarly, the U.S. national security system can provide resources efficiently, but it also can do so inadequately and tardily. Flawed responses recur in issue areas as diverse as biodefense, public diplomacy, and military intervention. They also occur across many presidential administrations, from the onset of the Cold War to the present day. The piecemeal organizational reforms enacted to date have not fostered improved policy outcomes or decisionmaking, while capability building, especially in the civilian national security agencies, remains less than optimal."--P. viii.
Notes: "March 2012."

"Strategic Studies Institute book."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Richard Weitz; title: Pt. I. Organizing the national security apparatus. The Vice President and foreign policy : from "the most insignificant office" to Gore as Russian czar / Aaron Mannes; title: The Iran-Contra affair / Alex Douville; title: Pt. II. Mitigating and managing unconventional threats. Progress of "biodefense strategy for the 21st century" : a five-year evaluation / Al Mauroni; title: Failures at the nexus of health and homeland security : the 2007 Andrew Speaker case / Elin Gursky and Sweta Batni; title: Counterterror failure : the Fadlallah assassination attempt / Richard J. Chasdi; title: Pt. III. Dealing with the new world disorder. The Asian financial crisis : managing complex threats to global economic stability / Rozlyn C. Engel; title: The banality of the interagency : U.S. inaction in the Rwanda genocide / Dylan Lee Lehrke; title: The crisis in U.S. public diplomacy : the demise of the U.S. Information Agency / Nicholas J. Cull and Juliana Geran Pilon; title: Pt. IV. Leveraging and supporting allies. U.S. interagency efforts to combat international terrorism through foreign capacity building programs / Michael B. Kraft and Celina B. Realuyo; title: U.S. decisionmaking regarding East Timor, 1999 / Richard Weitz; title: The interagency, Eisenhower, and the House of Saud / Christine R. Gilbert; title: Conclusion / Richard Weitz.